Nature & weather
Mountains, weather, and the outdoors — the landscape the language grew up in.
- taw mountainmingi taw — Mount Elbrus (literally: the eternal mountain)
- suw water / river
- kök sky (also: blue)
- cer earth, ground, land
- kar snow
- cangur rain
- cel wind
- boran snowstorm
- terek tree
- ağaç wood / forest
- taş stone
- köl lake
kün (sun) and ay (moon) live in the time words — one word each covers both the body and the unit of time.